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"Moore's Law" -- although for memory we are doing BETTER than Moore's Law.
In general it's the same with most technology -- just look at what you can buy a DECENT used car for with all the technology in it compared with what was available several years ago.

About the only things that inevitably seem to RISE in time are Energy Prices, Income taxes and in most desirable areas the price of Real Estate - especially in places like Central Paris. NYC or London.

Depending on what you eat and where you live food is a LOT cheaper than several years ago -- you have to look at the price relative to income not the absolute price.

I grow a lot of my own vegetables -- taste much better than Supermarkets - they cost virtually nothing and are "self propagating" from year to year -

Looking at "The median" earner - a much smaller percentage of income is spent on food than several years ago -- of course if you always eat "Junk" or Take away stuff and / or visit restaurants a lot then it IS more expensive.

Again if you want cheaper food then - this is getting into dangerous territory - we should ENCOURAGE the use of genetically modified stuff -- higher yields, more disease resistant etc and cheaper energy production -- but I'm sure the "Tree Hugging" Rent a mob lot would have things to say about more Fracking etc. Of course THEY aren't the people paying your energy bills !!!!

You are telling me Milk is cheaper? Bread, Meat, Fruit, and I would argue also have risen. Figures released by economists dispute your statement that food is lot cheaper. The life of an IT pro must be far removed from reality.

Yes, food is damn expensive and the cost production/delivery with oil's market rising price doesn't help much, including natural disasters. Not everybody have private little garden to grow his own and "Junk food" can be as expensive as decent one nowadays.

But for sure, parts we pay now for building our own PC desktops and Electronics hardware devices are far cheaper than what they were just few years ago.

Asus F5RL RAM memory present but not recognisedHi there
I have been reading around and, although there is a variety of posts regarding this general issue, none addresses my particular problem.
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I've uploaded a jpg showing the problem.
A big thanks in advance,

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Windows 7 Upgrade ChartThis is my first post D:
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